>>Based on our observations, software development activities in C# and VB started to peak only when VS2005 was released. And so therefore, it's quite surprising to me that there has been C# apps being converted to another language which is Delphi.
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>>In our case, we are currently converting our VFP app into C# and we just finished not even half of it simply because our system covers a lot of business aspects (HR/Payroll, Financial Accounting, LIS, RIS, HealthCare, Inventory & Warehousing, PatientCare, Billing...).
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>Out of curiosity;
>How long it took up to now, and how meny developers are involved ?

VS2003 is just our learning tool. We attempted to start the conversion then but we failed because of a lot of factors and one of them is that the tool is not yet mature. Buggy... VS2005 is far different plus a lot of frameworks in the market which are also stable enough for serious application development. We started middle 2006 with 2 people involved but more of restructuring the databases and putting frameworks i.e. MM.NET and Infragistics together. January 2007, we added 3 guys making it 5 purely .NET developers for the conversion as against 3 VFP programmers maintaining our current system.

We are about to complete HR, Payroll, eTimekeeping with FingerScan Technology this month June which 6-8 months of development.

>Don't tell me that all this is in a single app, we are talking about
>bundle of applications right ?

In VFP, 6 applications in one executable. In .NET, we added two apps making 8 but separate executables.

>BTW What is LIS and RIS ??

LIS - Laboratory Information System (HL7) compliant
RIS - Radiology Information System (HL7) compliant in partnership with the Seimens group.